Recycled plastic collected by waste pickers turned into 152 million buttons - catalysing inclusive circularity
Stockholm [Sweden]/ Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 6 (ANI/PRNewswire): In 2020, the philanthropic H&M Foundation launched a first-of-its-kind USD 11 million initiative, Saamuhika Shakti, to address the gaps in the system that keep Bengaluru waste pickers in poverty and exclusion. Plastic waste collected by informal waste pickers is becoming a valued resource in the fashion and textile industry. Buttons partly made from plastic waste are being featured on garments sold worldwide. The...
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